Home gardens are when people grow gardens at home with plants, vegetables, and fruits. They maintain and produce their own food to consume and supply their home with. The survival of their seeds and plants they planted are in their own hands because they must water, weed, and maintain their garden to their ability to keep it healthy and nutritious for their plants to flourish and grow.
The minimum needed to start your own garden at home is some type of fertilizer to level the ground and supply the soil with nutrients. You also need to buy any types of seeds to place into the ground, and make sure they are spread out enough, so they have room to mature and grow. If the economy is bad during this time, many people don’t want to spend money on these things, so their garden suffers as a result because they feel that they can spend their money on more important things. After your plants are mature, you have to pick them, wash them, and store them somewhere in your home. Consumption of your garden is when you eat the plants you produced and decided to grow. The benefit of processing, producing, and consumption of your own home garden is that there would be no harmful chemicals used on the foods because farmers use pesticides to drive away unwanted pests.
If you want to have a garden, but don’t have enough time to spend a large amount of time on it, then there are eleven easy crops you can plant that require minimum maintenance. These eleven plants are Garlic, Carrots, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Cucumbers, Radishes, Beets, Nasturtiums, Green Beans, and Squash. There crops are referred to as the “lazy man’s crop” because they require so little care and time. Also planting your own garden to be consumed is much cheaper than buying food at the grocery store. Problems with home gardens are environmental issues. If it rains too much than your plants in your garden can drown, but if there is too little rain, there isn’t much of a problem because you can access water in different places and transport it to your garden like your hose or sink.
Also, if the economy is hitting your family’s income badly and you can’t afford fertilizer from the store to put in your garden, then you can create your own fertilizer or compost. To make your own compost, you put organic minerals, like a banana peal, in a container. You let the container sit, and while it sits, the heat inside will climb and the bacteria level will thrive. They will both break down the substances inside into a soil material that you can add to your garden. The compost will add nutrients to your soil, which would allow your garden to flourish.
Vocabulary: 1. Garden Vertically: plant can be trained to grow vertically on a fence or string vertically, so minimum ground space is used. 2. Succession crop: plants that grow and mature in a short amount of time, so it leave time to plant other crops. 3. Intercrop: you plant two different crops in the same row every other, and one must mature quicker than the other. Once the one is matures and picked<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3dcVpKkt49I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>out of the column, it is around the time the other crop would need space to grow. 4. Spading fork: used for tilling the garden. 5. Garden rake: used to smooth the surface break up clods. 6. Sowing: you place the seed five times as deep into the dirt as the seed's diameter because that is how much room the seed needs to grow.
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Home gardens are when people grow gardens at home with plants, vegetables, and fruits. They maintain and produce their own food to consume and supply their home with. The survival of their seeds and plants they planted are in their own hands because they must water, weed, and maintain their garden to their ability to keep it healthy and nutritious for their plants to flourish and grow.The minimum needed to start your own garden at home is some type of fertilizer to level the ground and supply the soil with nutrients. You also need to buy any types of seeds to place into the ground, and make sure they are spread out enough, so they have room to mature and grow. If the economy is bad during this time, many people don’t want to spend money on these things, so their garden suffers as a result because they feel that they can spend their money on more important things. After your plants are mature, you have to pick them, wash them, and store them somewhere in your home. Consumption of your garden is when you eat the plants you produced and decided to grow. The benefit of processing, producing, and consumption of your own home garden is that there would be no harmful chemicals used on the foods because farmers use pesticides to drive away unwanted pests.
If you want to have a garden, but don’t have enough time to spend a large amount of time on it, then there are eleven easy crops you can plant that require minimum maintenance. These eleven plants are Garlic, Carrots, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Cucumbers, Radishes, Beets, Nasturtiums, Green Beans, and Squash. There crops are referred to as the “lazy man’s crop” because they require so little care and time. Also planting your own garden to be consumed is much cheaper than buying food at the grocery store. Problems with home gardens are environmental issues. If it rains too much than your plants in your garden can drown, but if there is too little rain, there isn’t much of a problem because you can access water in different places and transport it to your garden like your hose or sink.
Also, if the economy is hitting your family’s income badly and you can’t afford fertilizer from the store to put in your garden, then you can create your own fertilizer or compost. To make your own compost, you put organic minerals, like a banana peal, in a container. You let the container sit, and while it sits, the heat inside will climb and the bacteria level will thrive. They will both break down the substances inside into a soil material that you can add to your garden. The compost will add nutrients to your soil, which would allow your garden to flourish.
Vocabulary:
1. Garden Vertically: plant can be trained to grow vertically on a fence or string vertically, so minimum ground space is used.
2. Succession crop: plants that grow and mature in a short amount of time, so it leave time to plant other crops.
3. Intercrop: you plant two different crops in the same row every other, and one must mature quicker than the other. Once the one is matures and picked<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3dcVpKkt49I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>out of the column, it is around the time the other crop would need space to grow.
4. Spading fork: used for tilling the garden.
5. Garden rake: used to smooth the surface break up clods.
6. Sowing: you place the seed five times as deep into the dirt as the seed's diameter because that is how much room the seed needs to grow.
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